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Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration

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The resolution described how roughly 9,000 people entered Ceuta that May, including at least 1,200 unaccompanied children, days after Spain admitted the leader of the Polisario Front for medical treatment.

By March 2022, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez reversed four decades of Spanish neutrality and endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

Spain estimated 50,000 arrivals, Ceuta’s regional government 60,000 and Morocco 40,000.

Spain said at least 72 people died, most from drowning.

Morocco reported 11 deaths, while the Moroccan Association for Human Rights said nearly 130 died.

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People breach barbed wires as they attempt to cross from the Moroccan northern town of Fnideq to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on July 31, 2026. (AP Photo) Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration Published: August 17, 2026 10.14am EDT Share article Print article According to a European Parliament resolution adopted in June 2021, Moroccan police temporarily eased controls at the border of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave of about 83,000 people on the North African coast, and failed to stop thousands of people from entering.…

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